We mustbe part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulancedrivers at the bitter end.

I'vealways felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the numberof conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the sametopic.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Don'tclose the barn door after the horse runs away.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Tolerance that accepts merits as the most natural thing in World is the highest applause.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it

Speechis human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead; therefore we mustlearn both arts.

Lookingfor fish? Don't climb a tree.

No matter how good the idea of the other fellow may be, there is always a better one !